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Studies have shown that meat-based diets are associated with cancer-inducing microbes including Fusobacteria and Peptostreptococcus in both humans and other species.

Among the germ-eating microbes they found, “some are real champions at killing fusobacteria”, she says.

In a recent study they reported that fusobacteria had burrowed into tumors and stayed with them as they spread throughout the body.

Researchers have discovered a different type, fusobacteria, in more advanced colon cancer.

Another problem, said Dr. Holt, is that patients would have to take the antibiotic indefinitely, because Fusobacteria are constantly being reintroduced into the mouth.